Press statement by SAC J. E. Milnes at Seattle airport re hijacking of Flight 305
Document date 24 November 1971
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Id: Cooper-Part-11:364-364
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-11:364-364 Document: Press statement by SAC J. E. Milnes at Seattle airport re hijacking of Flight 305 Id: Cooper-Part-11:364-364 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-11%3A364-364 What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)? What does the scan show?
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 11 p. 364 (DB Cooper-1839), Other, dated 24 Nov 1971, serial SE 164-81-130 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-11%3A364-364
J.E. MILNES advised press that Northwest Flight 305 out of Portland, destined to Seattle, with 37 passengers including hijacker.
While taxing for take off hijacker, advised he had a bomb and issued instructions to stewardess for relay to pilot, that he wanted $200,000, four parachutes - 2 breast packs and 2 back packs, be delivered and no one was to approach the plane, except the people with requested material. That plane landed and that NW paid $200,000, delivered the parachutes to him on the plane and loaded the plane to full capacity with fuel.
All passengers were released unharmed; two stewardesses released and plane took off, and that at time he talked to reporters, plane was somewhere between Seattle and Portland.
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X Only U Press Released [guess: 4]
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THIS IS PRESS RELEASE GIVEN OUT AT AIRPORT ON 11-24-71 BY SAC
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164-81- 130 SEARCHED.........INDEXED......... SERIALIZED...[illegible]..FILED..[illegible] NOV 2 6 1971 FBI-SEATTLE
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DB Cooper-1839
Serials: SE 164-81-130
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